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Une augmentation du Smic favorise l'automatisation et le chomage dans les metiers automatisables / An increase in the SMIC promotes automation and unemployment in automated trades

16 August 2017

In a new study, two economists, Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics and David Neumark of the University of California at Irvine, analyzed 35 years of census data from the United States. The data cover the period 1980 to 2015. The objective was to study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs…

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